27% of Our Turnover, Given Back

27 Dec 2025
Every year, we ask ourselves a simple question: If openHR exists to dignify work, how do we dignify the world around that work?

This year, the answer was clear.
We donated 27% of our turnover to evidence‑based, high‑impact charities - organisations that don’t just do good, but prove it.


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These aren’t feel‑good gestures or vague “awareness” campaigns. They’re interventions with measurable outcomes, audited impact, and transparent results. The kind of work we respect because it mirrors our own philosophy: clarity, accountability, and real‑world effect.

And here’s the part we’re proudest of:
Every rand we donated was powered by you.  
Your trust in openHR - your payrolls, your teams, your businesses - made this possible. You didn’t just use our software. You helped fund upliftment and other interventions that save and improve lives at scale.

In a world where many companies talk about impact, we prefer to document it.

Thank you for being part of this legacy.
Here’s to building systems - and a society - where dignity is the default.

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